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Tag Archives: George Thorogood
My 100 Essential Albums
My 100 Essential Albums I like Desert Island Disks. For those that do not know this radio show the premiss is very simple. A celebrity is asked to choose just 8 tracks that they would take with them if they were to be marooned on a desert island. Obviously, 8 tracks is a nonsense. That […]
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Tagged as: 100 essential albums, beefheart, blues music, bo diddley, captain beefheart, chuck berry, classic rock music, cream, frank sinatra, frank zappa, George Thorogood, howlin' wolf, its a beautiful day, led zeppelin, lou reed, love rock music, miles davis, mothers of invention, muddy waters, nick cave, patti smith, ray charles, real blues, real rock, real rock and blues, robert johnson, rock music, rolling stones, the adverts, tim fite, tom waits, velvet underground, white denim
On This Day – Stagger Lee (Yet Again)
On this day in 1959 Lloyd Price reached number one in the States with “Stagger Lee”. “Stagger Lee” has been recorded many times under many names by many people. The song has been Bowderized, revised, chewed up and spat out by too many people to mention. Some of whom should have known better and some […]
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